Mike Vaccaro

This is the Knicks right now. This is the team. These are the players. This is reality, for now and for at least a couple of weeks.

As the minutes melted away, that’s when you got one final clue just how completely St. John’s has captured the imagination of the big, bad city.

John would appreciate this, I know he would. 

You have to believe Pitino understands some of the things going through the minds of his starting lineup now as they try to get fully healthy before next week’s Big East Tournament.

For it was on March 11, 1958, that the Garden was finally reborn as a college basketball showplace, and it was young Jack Powers, a senior at Manhattan, who made that happen.

Now, at the top of the league, the Big East once again has four of the game’s brightest lights.

Since the new Garden opened in 1968, there have been an array of hotly anticipated college basketball games involving our locals.

It’s impossible to dispute the impact Rick Pitino has had in his 54-game tenure with St. John’s.

Josh Allen is not poor, by any definition other than the number of Super Bowl Rings in his possession. He wants to be king. Right now Patrick Mahomes is the king. 

If you’ve cared at all about sports in New York City the past 55 years or so, you knew George Kalinsky.